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physiography of Turkey

Southeastern Turkey between Gaziantep and the Tigris (Dicle) River rests on a stable massif called the Arabian platform. It is characterized by relatively gentle relief, with broad plateau surfaces descending to the south from about 2,500 feet (760 metres) at the mountain foot to 1,000 feet (300 metres) along the Syrian border. In the centre of this zone, the volcanic Mount Karaca reaches 6,294...

tectonic framework of Asia

...4 billion and 541 million years ago) and have been covered largely by little-disturbed sedimentary rocks; included in that designation are the Angaran (or East Siberian), Indian, and Arabian platforms. There are also several smaller platforms that were deformed to a greater extent than the larger units and are called paraplatforms; those include the North China (or Sino-Korean)...

In the Arabian platform, the youngest of the major continental nuclei in Asia, a hypothetical rifting event sometime between 1.2 billion and 950 million years ago is thought to have created an ocean basin that clearly existed 950 million years ago in the northeastern part of the platform. The same rifting event may have also created some of the microcontinents with basements older than 2...

Only three major nuclei underwent Paleozoic tectonic events not obviously related to their flanking orogenic belts. The Arabian platform underwent a major extensional tectonic event from the late Proterozoic to the middle Cambrian that created large north-south (“Arabian-trend”) and northwest-southeast (“Najd-trend”) rift basins in which clastics and evaporites (Jubaylah...